Deaths and Funerals DELHI region for Mears Glidewell
Funeral services were held for Mears Glidewell 82 who died Monday at Heritage Manor Nursing Home Newellton. The Rev Thomas Hickman led the service in Delhi First National Funeral Home chapel with burial at Epps Cemetery. Survivors include two sons a daughter a brother eight grandchildren and many great grandchildren and nieces and nephews. Pallbearers named included 507 Craft John Kovac Howard Maxwell Boykin McLean Fred Flowers and Glen Robertson.
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Delhi
Mears
Jettis Avis Glidewell
Heritage Manor
Newellton
Thomas Hickman
First National Funeral Home
Epps Cemetery
Willie Lee Glidewell
Fipps
Bluford R. Glidewell
Goldshborg
N. C
Ars. George Welch
Sheriff Havis
Alexandria
Annie J. Harper
Alfred Harper
Louis, Mo
Bo J. Evans
Shreveport
Barsey Lea Donovan
Vicksburg
Vettie Lou Patten
Baton Rouge
Latte Brewer
Mamie Hammak
Myrtie Roberts
Janette Cortwell
Oak Grove
Boyd Harper
John Kovac
Howard Maxwell
Boykin McLean
Fred Flowers
Glen Robertson
Funeral for Zona Panther Harrelson in Grayson
Funeral services for Zona Panther Harrelson 77 die Tuesday in Columbia Heights Hospital after a long illness. Rev. Jimmy Bolton to officiate at Riser and Son Funeral Home chapel in Columbia with burial in Welcome Home Cemetery Grayson. Survivors include four sons three daughters a brother and many grandchildren and great grandchildren.
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Grayson
Zona Panther Harrelson
Columbia Heights Hospital
Jimmy Bolton
Chapel of Riser and Son Funeral
Columbia
Welcome Home Cemetery
Marshall B. Harrelson
C Grayson
George W. Harrelson
Los Angeles
Calif
John S. Harrelson
Little Rock
George T. Naff rites held in Shreveport church
Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. for George T. Naff 67 who died Monday in his Shreveport home. The Rev Lawrence Plumtley officiated at St. Mark's Episcopal Church with burial in Forest Park Cemetery. Naff, Bastrop native, led Texas Eastern Transmission Co and United Gas Corp, practiced law after a University of Alabama degree, and rose to president of Texas Eastern 1954-56. Pallbearers listed.
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Shreveport
George T. Naff
Shreveport Drooj
Lawrence Plumtley
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
Osborn Funeral Home
Forest Park Cemetery
Bastrop
Naff
Texas Eastern Transmission Co
United Gas Corp
University of Alabama
Funeral services for Mrs W W Mooney in Monroe
Funeral services for Mrs W W Mooney of Monroe were held at Fellowship Baptist Church in Ruston with Rev. Charles Middleton officiating. Burial followed at the church cemetery under Kilpatrick Funeral Home supervision. Survivors include two daughters Mrs D W Hines Bienville and Mrs Joe Current Monroe, one sister Mrs S J Griffin Fort Worth, ten grandchildren and fourteen great grandchildren.
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Ruston
W. W. Mooney
Monroe
Charles Middleton
Friendship Baptist Church
Kilpatrick Funeral Home
D. W. Hines
Bienville
Joe Current
Bertran Harper Obituary at Kilbourne Kilbourne Kilbourne
Funeral services for Bertran Harper 78 who died Tuesday in West Carroll Parish Hospital were held at 2 30 p m at First Baptist Kilbourne. The World War I veteran and retired farmer is survived by his widow with burial in Kilbourne Cemetery.
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Bertran Harper
Oak Grove
West Carroll Parish
R. V. Kinney
M. J. Martin
H. G. Hammonds
First Baptist Church
Kilbourne
First National Funeral Home
Kilbourne Cemtry
Harper
Funeral services held for Vidalia barber M. Shorty Foster
Funeral services were conducted at 2 p m for M o1 Shorty Foster 69 a retired barber who died Monday in Concordia Parish Hospital after a long illness The Rev Mack Walker officiated at Sycamore Baptist Church burial was in Hollywood Cemetery McComb Miss Foster a Vidalia resident 20 years native of Behale Mississippi survived by three sons five daughters three brothers one sister ten grandchildren and one great grandchild Pallbearers were Barbers Union members from the Vidalia Ferriday area.
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Vidalia
Shorty
Foster
Concordia Parish Hospital
Mack Walker
Sycamore Baptist Church
Young
Ferriday
Hollywood Cemetery
McComb
Sycamore Baptist
Barbers Union
Vidalia - Ferriday
Helen Bernice Foster
Mansonl. Foster Jr
Emory Glenn Foster
San Francisco
Calif
Richard Harold Foster
United States Army
Fort Bragg
N. C
James R. Tippit
Alexandria
Mildred L. Foster
Gretna
J. W. Nettles
Monroe
Dale Collins
Deborah Marie Foster
C. A. and
A. R. Foster
Jackson
R. D. Foster
Natchez
Mattie Robbins
Suit seeks desegregation of Louisiana penal system
A federal suit filed in New Orleans by Black Power activist H. Rap Brown and others seeks desegregation of all Louisiana penal institutions. Plaintiffs charge state law enforces racial segregation in living quarters and that minority workers are underrepresented. Five plaintiffs state prior or current prison status. Brown has a federal firearms conviction appeal.
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New Orleans
Federal District Court
H. Rap Brown
Louisiana
Brown
Orleans Parish
Senior Citizens Meet Thursday at Benoit Center
The Golden Age Senior Citizens Club holds a 1 p.m. meeting on Thursday at the Benoit Recreation Center. Citizens 50 and older are invited for bingo games and afternoon recreation, with president Mrs. Etta Benge noting efforts to keep programs engaging.
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Golden Age Senior Citizens Club
Benoit Recreation Center
Etta Benge
Rites Pend For Haynesville Youth Killed In Wreck
Relatives await arrival of a brother from Vietnam before funeral services for Charles H. Burgess 19 Haynesville La Tech student killed in a West Virginia crash Sunday. Survived by parents two brothers a sister and two others injured in the Bible conference car wreck.
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Haynesville
Vietnam
Charles H. Burgess
Louisiana Tech
West Virginia
J H. Burgess
Haynesville High School
Burgess
Ronald Burgess
Set
Walliam Burgess
George Air Force Base
Calif
Marilyn Botner
C R Wilson Dies in Monroe Services Pending
Cecil Roosevelt Wilson 66 of 116 Glenmar Monroe died at home unexpectedly. A retired supervisor from Mississippi River Fuel and Gas Co Poplar plant he moved to Monroe in 1966 after retirement. Native of West Virginia he belonged to Crossett Arkansas Masonic Lodge. Survived by widow Mildred two sons Foster C C Wilson Beaumont Texas and Cecil Wilson Metairie and sister Mrs Della Cunningham Parkersburg WV.
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Cecil Roosevelt Wilson
Glenmar
Monroe
Mulhearn
Wilson
Poplar
Mississippi River Fuel and Gas Co
Missouri
West Virginia
Crossett, Ark
Masonic Lodge
Capers Rites In Oak Grove
Funeral services for Claude Calvin Capers were held at Macedonia Baptist Church with Rev. Don Ross officiating. Capers died Saturday from a gunshot wound at his Los Angeles home after a long illness. Burial followed at Macedonia Cemetery under First National Funeral Home of Oak Grove. He is survived by a widow Margaret Capers and numerous siblings in Oklahoma, Tennessee, Alabama and Pennsylvania.
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Oak Grove
Claude Calvin Capers
Los Angeles
Calif
Don Ross
Macedonia Baptist Church
First National Funeral Home
Macedonia Cemetery
Margaret Capers
B. A. Capers
West Monroe
J. T. Capers
Memphis, Tenn
B. L. Capers
W. E. Capers
W. S. Gray
Monroe
Hotel worker charged in liquor theft during governors conference
An employee at the Charleston hotel hosting the Southern Governors Conference was arrested for petty larceny after lifting a whisky bottle from Governor Robert McNair's hospitality room. Associate Municipal Judge I M Goldberg suspended sentence, noting the unusual source of the liquor.
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Charleston
S.C. Cap
Robert McNair
I. M. Goldberg
School Board approves federal funds driven contracts and staff moves
The Ouachita Parish School Board awarded bids for maps globes science and reading supplies bought with federal funds and appointed Robert L. Wroten as director of the Federal Program with a salary of 11000. Two principals were hired Hoyt Lee and Johnny Wilson. The board also approved adjustments to bid dates at Richwood School and authorized action to fix a leaky Hamp Faust School roof.
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Ohuachita Parish
Robert L. Wroten
W. G. Kelly Jr
Hamp Faust School
B. G. Wardlow
M and M Construction Company
Wardlow
William Norris TH
A. L. Smith School
Sterlington
Parker and Wells
Monroe City
Milton Hall
Nelda C. Channell
Ransom
Ann Weems Chandler
Calhoun
Margaret Diane Fisackerly
West Monroe
Ora Lee Slack
Boley
Melva Dean Davis
Myles
Frederick McHenry
Booker T. Washington
Frederic Eugene Lester
Kiroli
Roosevelt Pine
Richwood
Robert John Seafidel
Ouachita Parish
Jail prisoners postal friendship blooms in Missouri county jail
In St Joseph Missouri letters travel between the county jail and the post office as a sanctioned inmate correspondence program. Sheriff C A Jenkins notes each letter is censored stamped and handled like regular mail with the postman delivering it back to the jail.
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ST. Joseph, Mo
C. A. Jenkins
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Don Newton
Tom Wafer
Joe
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Zona Harrelson
George Naff
M. L. Foster
C.R. Wilson
Federal Gov
Kelly
Stanley Projection Company
Delta Visual
Standard School Service
Lanier Systems
Jasper Ewing
Bell and Howell
Delta Visual Service
Louisiana Audiometer Company
Lousiana Electronics
Delta Pictures
Interstate School Supply
A. J. Mystrom Company
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Europe
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Africa
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Australia
Mexico
Clarence J. Dubox
France
Spain
Portugal
Welch Scientific Co
Central Scientific Co
Combosco Scientific Co
William Leon Crider
Yvonne H. Fontenot
Riser
LaVon Barne
Oglesbee
Jean W. Cheek
Robert Clinton Durham
John Paul Hobgood
Charles Jarvis
Vivian Parker
Lenwis Ransom
Kittye Cyra Johnson
Inez Spangler
Ouachita
Mary Napoleon Morrison
Otis Cox
Thed
P. Birdsong
West Moines
Patrick van Zile
Thomas F. Jones
West Monroe High School
Sears
SAVE
Coast Guard
Twin City
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